On Jan. 25, 2018, NASA launches Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, a hosted payload aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite. GOLD will investigate the dynamic intermingling of space and ...
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2018
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Near the stone ruins of the home where he says he lived as a boy, Yacoub Odeh laments that his native village on Jerusalem's hillside may soon be transformed forever.
Archaeology
Nov 16, 2017
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In 1961, an American astronaut reached space for the first time and soared through the heavens in a gumdrop-shaped capsule.
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2017
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NASA has selected five new research proposals to understand the effective drivers of investments in the global space economy, encouraging non-traditional companies, as well as traditional aerospace companies, to look beyond ...
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2017
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SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched a communications satellite into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2017
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British scientists will be able to fly to the edge of space to conduct vital medical experiments under new powers unveiled this week.
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2017
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The launch pad used to send Americans to the moon and shuttle astronauts into orbit is roaring back into action.
Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2017
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India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on Wednesday in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space programme.
Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2017
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Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based tracking stations.
Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2017
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In a significant step towards restoring America's indigenous human spaceflight capability and fostering the new era of commercial space fight, NASA has awarded a slew of additional astronaut taxi flights from Boeing and SpaceX ...
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2017
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